Trump's lawsuit against Iowa pollster over 'fake' Harris lead 'is both stupid and very likely unconstitutional,'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Feb 21st, 2025, 3:52 pm


Veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer on Friday implored a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her and The Des Moines Register newspaper by Donald Trump over a poll published ahead of the 2024 presidential election that predicted Vice President Kamala Harris had a slight lead in the race.

In a 30-page filing, Selzer’s attorneys excoriate Trump’s lawsuit, arguing that Trump’s theory of liability “would eviscerate the First Amendment” and is “both stupid and very likely unconstitutional.”

In a poll released three days before the election, Selzer had predicted that Harris had about a three-point lead over then-candidate Trump. Trump went on to win the state by about 13 points. The lawsuit, initially filed in December 2024 under an Iowa law against “consumer fraud,” accuses Selzer and the Register of being in cahoots with “cohorts in the Democrat Party” who “hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.”

It seeks damages and a court order to prevent the newspaper from publishing any future “deceptive polls” that might “poison the electorate.”

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Full headline: ‘Would eviscerate the First Amendment’: Trump’s lawsuit against Iowa pollster over ‘fake’ Harris lead ‘is both stupid and very likely unconstitutional,’ attorney argues

Link to MOTION (PDF viewer) - Trump v. Selzer - Motion and Brief in Support of Motion to Dismiss

Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://www.thefire.org/sites/default/files/2025/02/Trump%20v.%20Selzer%20-%20Motion%20and%20Brief%20in%20Support%20of%20Motion%20to%20Dismiss.pdf

[Karasu]

1. There's virtually NOTHING this administration has done that isn't at LEAST one of those two things.

More often than not, it's both.

[Old Crank]

2. They should counter sue

For all damages. Sue for constitutional rights being infringened.
And sue just because he is a pail of rotten garbage.

[Botany]

3. Trump cheated to win (Musk & GRU) and he wants to hide any evidence of his cheating.

The poll was right end of story. I hope she counter sues for harassment.

[LaRaven]

4. Like the 60 Minutes lawsuit?

Or the many other lawsuits to intimidate free speech. This may covering up their own ‘influence’ — without which she might have been correct. Won by 13 pts?

[Figarosmom]

5. But it will make sure it never

Happens again anywhere. He's trying to control the polls. This guy is fake running again. He will run again and there will be another fake election that he will fake win. So he doesn't want polls saying how unpopular he is.

Look how he denied the polls this week telling his media the opposite of what they said. Saying that his approval was at 70%. His useful idiots will believe that.

[3auld6phart]

6. Gawd damn

Childish freakin’ fool. Surely to Christ somebody put this freakin’ infantile fool out of his misery.